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TIL New Zealand kea birds can be taught to use touchscreens with their tongues.

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5Vwg9 TIL in 2010, officials in Tokyo went to congratulate the oldest man in the city, Sogen Kato, on his 111th birthday, but instead found his skeletal remains on his bed. He’d been dead for 30 years but his family had kept it secret to continue collecting his pension money.
neB4G TIL that IBM made bombsights, rifles and engine parts during WWII
pveb TIL that Neil Armstrong’s NASA application was a week late. If it weren’t for his friend, Dick Day, secretly slipping it into the pile, he would have been rejected.
WeNB TIL since many female insects mate just once in their lives, insect populations can be controlled by releasing swarms of sterile males into the wild; the females mate with them, never have babies, and die. The method has eradicated populations of dangerous insects in several regions.
EAbd TIL that a person can automatically become a legal citizen of the Caribbean nation of Dominica for $100,000.